What a Drag it Isn't Getting Old: the 86th Academy Awards
Judi Dench in Philomena The mid-western weather is depressing. How depressing? People are calling for permission to blow off therapy. That's how depressing. I'm home unusually early one night last week and the TV is singing to me. With the flick of a button there's Andy Griffith as the Mayberry sheriff in a rerun in black and white (1960). The sheriff looks handsome, smiley and helpful in his khaki uniform, helping Aunt Bee break into a pharmacy. They have to use the "hidden" key on the door-ledge because it seems the old pharmacist isn't feeling well. The older man's niece will fill in for him. A stranger in this small town, she has all the right credentials and she is going to run a tight ship. Another townsperson, also elderly like Aunt Bee, a known quantity, bursts through the door in a panic. As Andy proposes to help her get her pills , the new pharmacist puts her foot down. No you don't. Not without a prescription. Nothing doing. http://www.tvla...